"For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true." ---- "Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal." ---- "But if one should guide his life by true principles, man's greatest wealth is to live on a little with contented mind; for a little is never lacking."